Carl dobkbusch



(No Model.)

0. DORNBUSOH.

RECORDING WEIGHING SCALE.

No. 393,299. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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ht lflltio CARL DORNBUSCH, OF SOHLOTTTVITZ, SAXONY, GERMANY.

RECORDING WElGl-llNG-=SCALE.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,299, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed Marl-i126, lSST. Renewed October 26, 1888. Serial No. 259,941. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL Donneuscn, a subject of the King of Saxony, Germany, and a resident of Sehlottwitz, Saxony, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Printing Device for Scales, of which the following is a clear and exact description, ref erenee being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In scales employed to weigh mail-matter and small packages there was lacking hitherto a device to show in written characters the ascertained weight as the same is shown by mechanical shifting of weights in decimal and centesimal scales of modern make.

My invention therefore has for its object to provide weighing and gaging scales with automatic marking mechanism, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a sectional side view, and Fig. 3 a modification, of my marking device.

The mechanism, as seen, consists in a wheel, a, with fur-rowed tire a, turning upon an arbor, .6, turned by the drawiugrod s, and being provided either on its rim, Figs. 1 and 2, or on its face or flat side, Fig. 3, with printingtypes t, the arrangement of which latter corresponds with that of the dial 0. A. pressure-lever, d, operatively attached to the scaleframe, brings a paper slip, label, or addressed card of the package p against the types 13 previously colored, when required, thus imprinting said paper with the marks of the weight indicated. This lever cl, operated by the handles of crank It h, to which latter the rod 8 is hooked at s, has two arms, (1 d", of which the former is provided with a spring-point, c, and the latter carries the holderf of paper slip 1).

The scale, when at rest, (the drawingrod 8, operating by means of a pinion and rack, being free of the Weight on the plate A,) has the index-finger e on the arbor z to the left of the zero, which brings the first type underneath the lever-arm (Z Pressing now upon the crank-handle h, so as to start the working of the scale, the index-finger .2 points to zero or the starting-point, (marked in Fi 1 by the number 60,) and at the same time the type 60 is found opposite the lever-arm d Havingnow placed the matter to be weighed upon the scale, we push the handle h farther down, when the spring-point c of the leverarm (1' is made to enter the furrows or notches of the tire a of corresponding arrangement with the diatface, thereby fixing the typewheel a. Exerting next still further prcssure upon the handle 71., the lever-arm (Z is made to bring the paper slip or car-(i1), fiXGtl in holderf, against the type-wheel a, imprint ing the marks of the latter thereon. Underneath the lever-arm d and in contact with type-wheel a there is employed a coloringroller, 7.1, to produce, when required, by means of various colored inks, variegated impressions of the types, while the screw Z, attached to the scale-frame and working upon the lever (Z, serves to regulate the depth of the impressions to be made upon the paper slips or card, according to their strength and the ma terial of which they are made.

Fig. 3 shows a modification of my marking device, a scale in which the types are applied to the face or flat side of the wheel a, which can he slid upon the arbor .1" by means of the lever (I, attached to arbor a. The point e of leverarm d passes into the face deepenings or furrows of the tire a, and the typet is imprinted by pressure of the ltX'CIKtllll (7. upon the paper placed between the wheel I: nd the plate i.

Having now described my invention, T desire to claim- In a marker-scale, the type-whcele, having the furrowed tire a in combination with the dial 0, the arbor .2", provided with index-finger .e, the lever (2, having the arms (2 d", the spring-point c, the cardholderf, the drawing- .rod 8, the crank it 71, the screw 1, and the coloring-roller 7;, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

CARL HORNE] \Vitnesses:

RUnoLr Sounrrnr, PAUL Dlzuokni nrnn. 

